Improvement in shot-cartridges for breech-loading fire-arms



iinz'rizfi) *STATES nemo TENT rrrn cHAnmS EDWARD SNninEn, or nALTL-iionn, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR 'ro HIM- SELF, .resins PENNINGTON, Jn., AND lsieiioLAS G. PENNIMAN, or SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOT-CARTRIDGES F'OR BREECH-LOADING FIRE-ARMS.'

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,640, dated `July 4,1871.

To all whom it may o oncern: '1

Be it known that I', CHARLES EDWARD Smir- DER,'of Baltimore, in thev eoiintyof Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shot-Cartridges for Non-Chanibered BreeehfLoading Guns; and

l do hereby declare the following. to be a full,

clear, and exact descriptiunof the' saine, refer- Aence being had to'the accompanying drawing 4in the separate guresdeiiote like parts ofthe cartridge in the drawing..

Letters Patent of `the United States 102,984, dated the 10th day of May, 1870, were granted to me for a 'shot-cartridge for non-chambered'brceehloading guns, which cartridges were made-cr, rather, their shells-of a single piece, and partially cut through, or so wez'i-kened as to readily part at the line where the portioiicontainingthe shotl was to separate from the part containing the powder, the shot portion going out with the shot and t-lie powder portion remaining' in the bore to be drawn or backed out when the breechis opened. to recharge the. arm. My present invention consists in making sliotcartridges, the shell or cases of which are made in morethau one piece, and afterward held together by an outer ease, cylinder, band, or belt of n'ietal, paper, or any other suitable material, or glued, pasted, or cemented together with sufficient strength to withstand handling and transportation, but so that the Shot portion shall go out with the" shot and the powder portion remain in 'the .bore of the gun` to be afterward retracted.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawing, which represents the shell or ease as made of two pieces or cylinders and held together by an outer cylinder.

a b represent two cylinders, which ma be of paper. The rear er powder-ease or eylin era is furnished with a cap and pin by which the powder is tired, and has a metallic endpieee, c, which closes its rear. The chamber for the cap maybe made in the wad e or otherwise,vaiul the tiringor as shown iii my patent hereinabove mentioned, or in any other way. This rear case contains the powder. The forward or shotcase b mayalso be made of paper, and its .rear end crimped or bent over a mandrel so as to leave an opening, 1, iii its rear. 0r, instead of crimping or bending,r 'over its rear end, said'eiid may be closed by a through it. The two eases a I1, made substantially as above described, are united so as to withstand handling and transportation, biitLat the saine time, to separate or part on firing, 'so that the forward one b sha-ll go out with the shot and the rear one a remain in the bore of the gun andbe'ejeeted in any of the usual well-known ways. These two eases or shells I propose te imite or der, n, made of thin sheet metal; and this case u may extend the whole length of the two sectional eases a. b, as seen at n, Figs. 1,2, and 3, or .only a portion of them, so that, instead of its being au entire ease, it may only be a' band, belt, Sleeve, or boss passing around or crossing the joint between the two sections, as shown in Fig. 5. While I prefer thin metal as the holding medium between these two sect-ions a b, ll ea'n use paper or other fibrous material; or the two sections ma-y be `stuck together by glue, paste, or cement, as shown i'ii Fig. 4, and still adhere' with sutiicient tenacity to withstand handling, and yet part at the tiring, so that the shot and its ease shall go out together at the muzzle, being driven' out by the powder behind there.A Many plans of uniting the two separate cylinders or sections so that they will part at the'line of union when fired may be devised, and niany'devices may applied for firing the cartridge. I do not limit or restrict my invention to either of these features. The cartridge may be charged either before or- .after the sections are united, the powderreadily passing into its case through the opening z iiv the shotcase, and this opening may be covered by a wad to separate and keep separate the powder and shot. The front of the cartridge may be closed in any well-known way to secure the shot in: proper place.

pin may be supported in or by the case and wad,

wad, as at i', Fig. 1, said wad hai-'ing aii opening hold together by a metallic case or outer eyliu.

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:1I am awarethat'a, case containing shot has been rediout of Acease containing powder. This YIV do not claim, as! by my construction the shot- 'A' Shot-cartridge; 'made of two or more sections 0r pieces, united Abydrietal,paper, or ccmentfto w ithstal ld handlin g", but rca (lily-separable ttheix' Jline of union when the cartridge is frcthsubstantizmlly as and for the purpose described. CHARLES E. SNEIDER.' 

